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During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Chinggis Khan and his heirs established the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world, extending from Korea to Hungary and from Iraq, Tibet, and Burma to Siberia. Ruling over roughly two thirds of the Old World, the Mongol Empire enabled people, ideas, and objects to traverse immense geographical and cultural boundaries. <I>Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia</I> reveals the individual stories of three key groups of...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
"Meesleurend, hartseer en snaaks … vol vonkel." – Marita van der Vyver Toe die bekende ontwerper Lanie van Reenen al haar spaargeld en energie in 'n kasteel in Aubusson ingooi, het haar vriende gewaarsku dis onwys. Maar Lanie was besiel. Sy het haar Franse kasteel liefderyk herstel en die «beste boetiekhotel in die streek» geskep. Die opening val egter saam met persoonlike en internasionale tragedie: die wêreldwye finansiële krisis, en 'n ernstige ongeluk wat Lanie se...
| Автор | Lanie van Reenen |
NgoLwesithathu, umhla wokuqala kuOktobha 2003, ityendyana lomfana elalinxibe ibhatyana eluhlaza enkone ligazi lalilele kufutshane nebhulorho kaloliwe eGermiston, lisifa. Igazi lalo lalinkcenkceza ngokomjelo ukunqumla indlela, amathemba ephelile. Umzimba wawudlaka-dlaka ziimbumbulu – iimbumbulu ezintlanu umdubuli awazikhulula ekufutshane kakhulu kuye. Zazibumkarha iingqondo ngexesha lizama ukumisa izithuthi ezidlulayo, kodwa zange kubekho nasinye esaba nenceba. Zazidlula zonke zizizipheke-pheke,...
| Автор | Thembelani Ngenelwa |
“Oepse daisy” kon net sowel “O bliksem”, “O gits” of “O magtag” gewees het, maar miskien is dit tyd om Juanita du Plessis in plaas van Jack Parow te speel. So sê Johan Bakkes. Die maklik begaanbare weë hou vir Johan Bakkes geen aantrekkingskrag nie; nee, vir hom altyd maar die smalle weë wat met bloedsweet gepaardgaan. Dáár waar min ander dit nog gewaag het. Hier is oudergewoonte heerlike, avontuurlustige vertellings oor ver én naby reise, propvol humor, en nooit sonder deernis vir die medemens...
| Автор | C. Johan Bakkes |
Koos Kombuis se vorige outobiografie, Seks & Drugs & Boeremusiek, was pretensieloos, eerlik, skreeusnaaks én hartroerend. Hierdie is sy Voëlvry-memoir en hy skryf met dieselfde rou eerlikheid en selfspot oor sy herinneringe van daardie tyd. Hy bely daar is dinge wat hy lank probeer ontken het, daarom kon hy nou eers daaroor skryf. En al is hierdie sy persoonlike blik op die mense en gebeure rondom die Voëlvry-toer, beskryf dit terselfdertyd ’n belangrike deel van die onlangse Afrikaanse...
| Автор | Koos Kombuis |
As a young girl Charlize Theron saw Darryl Hannah in Splash and she was convinced that she would make a better mermaid. Ever since, she has pursued her dream with single-minded obsession. Prize-winning author Chris Karsten traces Charlize’s meteoric rise from a smallholding in South Africa to the pantheon of stars. Personal interviews with friends and family in South Africa and extensive research flesh out the life and career of this remarkable woman. Judging from the first 33 years of her life...
| Автор | Chris Karsten |
Die waansin en wreedheid van geweld, maar veral die pyn van die slagoffers en hul naasbestaandes tref jou soos ’n krophou by die lees van die sesde titel in Chris Karsten se Ware Misdaad-reeks. Skrywer Pieter Pieterse was volksbesit toe hy al skrywende langs sy swembad oorval is. Goue seun van die Afrikaanse letterkunde Uys Krige se kleindogter, haar man, kinders en huishulp is eweneens genadeloos deur hul tuinier en ’n makker om die lewe gebring. Twee boosaardige jong motorkapers ontsien nie...
| Автор | Chris Karsten |
In reaction to popular demand, the topselling Stiletto is now available in English too. Karin Eloff was a good Afrikaans girl from a conservative religious background with an honours degree in psychology. Stiletto is the true story of how this model schoolgirl became Zoë – initially a stripper, then a dancer and masseuse in an escort agency and later editor of a pornographic magazine. Her path was littered with middle-aged men, Afrikaans girls with exotic stage names, risky as well as downright...
| Автор | Karin Eloff |
Johan Marais verlaat skool op ouderdom 16 om by die polisie aan te sluit. Wanneer hy in die tagtigerjare oorgeplaas word na die Oos-Randse Onluste-eenheid, is hy ’n geharde polisieman en sukkel hy reeds met ’n drankprobleem. Hy is ’n ooggetuie van verskeie voorvalle van polisiebrutaliteit. Hy ontken egter deurgans die uitwerking van al die trauma op sy persoonlike lewe.Later verlaat hy die polisie om sy eie skrootonderneming te begin, maar die simptome van post-traumatiese stres steek kop uit....
| Автор | Johan Marais |
Elita traces the life journey of Elizabeth «Elita» Lanaras and her quest for love. Along the way, she experiences some of the most dramatic events in South Africa's transition to democracy, and finally marries the Nobel Peace Prize-winning president who set Mandela free.The archetypal poor little rich girl, Elita was born to millionaire shipping magnates, but left to her own devices and a Swiss nanny before being sent off to a school she hated. Her mother, Nitza, insisted that she spoke...
| Автор | M Meiring |
Die hoogs private Elita de Klerk vertel hier vir die eerste keer haar volle verhaal. Ná ’n eensame jeug in die weelderige Kolonaki in Athene en in deftige kosskole, trou sy op jeugdige ouderdom met die aantreklike miljoenêr Tony Georgiades en neem haar intrek in die imposante Stud House in Londen. Maar steeds bly sy soekend. Sy vergesel haar man op talle sakereise wêreldwyd en word ma. Tog voel sy leeg. Die spoggerige hotelle en stralerjakkerlewe laat haar koud. Haar soektog bring haar na...
| Автор | M Meiring |
Karin Eloff is 'n boeremeisie met 'n honneursgraad in sielkunde en 'n Dopper-agtergrond. STILETTO vertel die ware verhaal van die pad wat dié kuis en voorbeeldige skooldogter gestap het om uiteindelik Zoë te word – eers as gewone stripper, toe as danseres en masseuse in die Streelkasteel en uiteindelik redakteur van 'n pornografiese tydskrif. Haar pad lê besaai met middeljarige mans, Afrikanermeisies met eksotiese Engelse verhoogname, gevaarlike seks en dwelms. STILETTO...
| Автор | Karin Eloff |
Die verhaal van hoogs geheime ontmoetings tussen verbanne ANC-leiers en 'n paar uitgesoekte Afrikaners in die onstuimige tagtigerjare, vir die eerste keer vertel deur iemand wat self daar was: Willie Esterhuyse. Dié vertroulike gesprekke in Engeland was nie net deurslaggewend in die begin van onderhandelinge en die uiteindelike oorgang nie; dit was ook die begin van 'n onwaarskynlike, maar durende, vriendskap tussen 'n Stellenbosse professor met 'n Broederbond-agtergrond en...
| Автор | Willie Esterhuyse |
The first comprehensive biography of an exceptional and inspirational leader who changed South African history. As leading anti-apartheid activist and thinker, Biko created Black Consciousness, which has resonance to this day. His death by torture, at the hands of the police, robbed South Africa of one of its most gifted leaders. Biko's intellectual legacy cannot be overestimated.Then a journalist, Helen Zille, along with Donald Woods, close friend of Biko's, exposed the truth behind...
| Автор | Xolela Mangcu |
The true story of an ordinary policeman who served in the South African Police Force at the height of apartheid. With graphic scenes of violence and sex, it exposes the realities of being in the police force in the seventies and eighties when brutality was commonplace and men didn’t cry.Johan Marais was also a witness to and participant in incidences of police corruption and brutality. He developed a serious drinking problem and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, but it took a suicide...
| Автор | Johan Marais |
Gold digger, chancer, attention whore – Khanyi Mbau has been called all of that and more. While her flamboyant and daring personality have made this actress a darling of the media and a sought-after guest at parties, her flashy lifestyle and relationships with older (and often married) men have made her one of the country’s most talked about women. This is the story of a young starlet who let sudden fame go to her head. Her world spirals out of control as fancy cars and rooms full of shoes...
| Автор | Lesley Mofokeng |
In ’n tyd toe die meeste vroue óf onderwyseres óf verpleegster geword het, het Rykie van Reenen vir haar ’n loopbaan oopgeskryf in die joernalistiek. Sy het Suid-Afrika se eerste vroulike oorlogskorrespondent geword toe sy die Jom Kippoer-oorlog in Israel gaan dek het.In die 1960’s het sy naam gemaak as rubriekskrywer vir “Van alle kante” in Die Burger en in die 1970’s vir “Op die randakker” in Rapport. Die rubrieke was só gewild dat dit as ’n sirkulasiebouer by Rapport beskou is en later ook...
| Автор | Lizette Rabe |
Jannie Mouton is in die pad gesteek as besturende direkteur op die ouderdom van 48. Binne 15 jaar daarná bou hy ’n allemintige sakeryk op: PSG het belange in maatskappye met ’n markkapitalisasie van R61 miljard. Wie is die man agter PSG? Hoe het Capitec se fenomenale sukses beslag gekry en hoekom vee hy hom af aan die woede van baie in die wynbedryf oor sy KWV-planne? Daar is baie wat sê hy is ’n bliksem wat nie nee vir ’n antwoord vat nie, maar daar is veel meer aan hierdie sakereus. Jannie...
| Автор | Carié Maas |
Sir David Graaff’s unique South African story begins as a poor child in Villiersdorp, watching over sheep and pigs. He was helped by a well-off friend of the family and taken to Cape Town to work at the man’s butchery. Within a few years, David was not only in charge of the butchery, but was the first person to use refrigerated food storage facilities for meat in South Africa. With a business empire begun, he went on to have a colourful political life and played a role in many South African...
| Автор | Ebbe Dommisse |
Jim Clark shares his experiences as a highly successful film editor at a time when films were a true collaboration of talented individuals.<br><br>The legendary "Doctor" Clark was the man who could make sick films healthy again. The role of editor in the collective, collaborative process that is the making of any film is massively important but not one that is generally recognized outside the small pond that is the filmmaking community. In this wonderfully enjoyable...
| Автор | Jim BSL Clark |
On a hot summer day in August of 1892, a double murder took place in Fall River, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Borden were killed in their own home by a person or persons unknown who attacked them with an axe or hatchet-type implement. As of today, the case is still unsolved and open. Many millions of words have been written about the events of that day, and people still go to the home (now a Bed and Breakfast) on Second Street and think about the bloody crime that happened there so long...
| Автор | E. Elaine Watson |
Kisses, even the ones that don’t happen, can be the trace of what’s constant when life changes. In childhood, when what seems to define everything is competition—for style, for knowing, for experience—a kiss is the first first. When a girl’s father moves out and chooses a new family, a kiss on the head from him may be the trace of constancy that she wants most.Later, such things take on a different flavor. Sometimes the kiss she wants...
| Автор | Claudia Sternbach |
When Michael Mewshaw receives a call from a stranger who says she has reason to believe he is her biological father, Mewshaw realizes he has been half dreading, half hoping for this to happen for over thirty years. Just like the young woman who wants to find the last piece to the puzzle of her life, he thinks it’s possible that in the same process he will discover the answer to questions that have plagued him for decades. But first he has to make sure that she is who she claims to...
| Автор | Michael Mewshaw |
In light of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan, the remarkable personal story that comprises Fear Itself becomes a cautionary tale.Unwittingly exposed to low-level radiation in the 1940s, Candida Lawrence has lived courageously with its effects throughout her life. Fear Itself traces her years struggling to have a child and her slow waking to the secrets that governments and institutions withheld from the women of her generation. The task for her—and for...
| Автор | Candida Lawrence |